fruto

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === fruito (archaic or dialectal) fructo (pre-standardization spelling) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fruito, from Latin frūctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), a derivative of Latin fruor (“to enjoy”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Compare Galician froito. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -utu Hyphenation: fru‧to === Noun === fruto m (plural frutos) fruit Hyponyms: baga, drupa, pomo, noz, vagem (figuratively) fruit; result; reward Synonyms: ganho, produto, proveito, resultado, vantagem offspring (daughters and sons) Synonyms: descendência, prole, rebento ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “fruto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “fruto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɾuto/ [ˈfɾu.t̪o] Rhymes: -uto Syllabification: fru‧to === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Latin frūctus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish frucho. ==== Noun ==== fruto m (plural frutos) (botany) any fruit from a plant, whether sweet or not (like avocado or tomato), edible or not any vegetable or produce that is grown (economics) profit from an activity result of an action, omission, attitude, etc. (figuratively) offspring ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== fruto first-person singular present indicative of frutar === Further reading === “fruto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025